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whigwam wrote:

Frazzled wrote:I'll tell that to the 15% unemployed. I'm sure they'll be supportive of your opinion.

The who? Unemployment is at 8.2% (per the BLS in May 2012).

Only when you wack off the people who ran out of unemployment benefits or quit looking for work out of despair. If you use the population of workers at the start of 2009, its 15%.
That doesn't even count underemployed.


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Melissia wrote:

dogma wrote:

Frazzled wrote:Good thing - per Obama - the private sector is just fine.

It is. It needed to shed fat.

The overhwelming majority of the job loss was in the public sector, not the private sector.

A three to one ratio, in fact.

Republicans have created so much job loss through reduction of the public sector that the growth of the private sector hasn't been able to keep up very well.

You really do follow the talking points don't you. The thought that the job losses were greater in the public sector are insanely laughable.


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dogma wrote:
Nah, the problem is that we simply don't need all that many people to work. Lots of Americans are superfluous given our employment culture.

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Frazzled wrote:You really do follow the talking points don't you.

I don't watch TV.

Frazzled wrote:The thought that the job losses were greater in the public sector are insanely laughable.

And yet it is true.

From the start of this year to about the beginning of last month, we had a job gain of +289,000, with an net job gain (gain minus losses) of +69,000. Of the difference (220,000), about 161,000 were government jobs. Which leaves 59,000 lost from private sector jobs, just shy of the three to one ratio I mentioned, but the point is still valid.

You don't need to watch TV to get the talking points.

Wait you're using this year as yourt baseline? HAHAHAHAHA
Use 2008 as the baseline.


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Oh look now that the EPA has set up the demise of the coal power egeneration industry by year end, its moving back to kill refiners. Get those regs in before the administraiton changes boys! We've got industries to kill!

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/epa-to-tighten-national-soot-standards/2012/06/14/gJQABYsPdV_story.html

Aaaaand the one who whines about "talking points" proves to be a black-clad metallic container himself.